“What it is you identify with begins to shift. When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half, you begin to recognise that your identity is with that whole thing.”

—  Rusty Schweickart

Source: Quoted in "The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution" by Frank White

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